Shoshke

When Parkinson’s disease overwhelms Shoshke’s husband and their financial situation becomes impossible, Shoshke decides to take her fate into her own hands and sell cannabis to survive. But what started as a temporary solution becomes a big business, providing even bigger troubles. >>

How to Say Silence

A photo found by the filmmaker in her grandmother’s house after her death seems strange. She has a pregnant belly. But she had told the story of adopting the director’s father because she was not able to conceive. Her old friends explain that the kibbutz decided state-building efforts preclude giving birth, and she had an […] >>

Glasses Camera

In her Glasses Camera, Ruti Sela combines two optical devices: eyeglasses and built-in-hidden camera. She lets her two nephews shoot most of the film, thereby allowing us to see the world through the eyes of a child for a few minutes. Sela interweaves several discrete and seemingly incongruous genes: children’s films, documentary reportages, hidden camera, […] >>

Ponevezh Time

For the first time, the world largest Ultra-Orthodox seminary opens its doors to a camera crew.The Ponevezh Yeshiva, founded in 1943, was the first Yeshiva to be established in Israel. Among the constant prayer and scholarly study of 1,200 students, stand fragile confused young men. The filmmaker, a former student of the Yeshiva, captures daily […] >>

Shadow of Truth: The Verdict

In the winter of 2006 13-year-old Tair Rada was found dead inside a locked toilet stall at her school on the northern tip of Israel. A week later the police arrested Roman Zdorov, a Ukrainian Immigrant, who had worked there as a temp, and eventually he confessed to the murder. But many still believed he […] >>

Cover Song

A pioneer of Israeli rock, Bert Vaknin was one of the first to perform music of bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath on the Israeli stage. Personal tragedy forced him to pause his musical journey, but now, at 70, he’s ready to rock again, reviving his iconic band, ‘Bereshit’. >>

No Child Spared

Meni Philip believed the days of teachers physically disciplining students belonged in the past, along with vague memories of abuse he suffered in school years ago. A viral post online proved otherwise, detailing brutality suffered at the hands of teachers in ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools and eliciting hundreds of similar stories. The responses sent Meni on […] >>

The 1957 Transcripts

The film delves into an almost forgotten event that took place in Kfar Qasim in October 1956, when 47 innocent civilians were shot and killed by Israeli Border Police soldiers. Through a gripping narrative structure, like a suspenseful legal drama, the film unfolds the historical, political, and psychological reality that had shaped and triggered the […] >>

Distant Constellation

This haunted Tarkovskian reverie drops us inside an Istanbul retirement home, where the battle-scarred residents bask in the camera’s attention. A creaky- voiced woman confides her personal account of the Armenian genocide. A sweetly deluded old Casanova still tries to charm and seduce. A blind photographer fiddles with his flash as he points his own […] >>

10% – What Makes a Hero?

What makes a hero? What is heroism? Against all odds, what compels someone to maintain his/her integrity, go against the grain and fight for what is just? In this documentary, director Yoav Shamir sets out on an entertaining and insightful international travelogue, exploring the notion of heroism. In a journey spanning three years, Yoav travels […] >>

End of Love Season

At the age of 75, Geula breaks up with her husband Arik, 77. A contractor is hired to build a wall that divides the family house in two, and each of them now lives in their own half. Director Shai Gal points his camera to his parents in an attempt to find out what happened […] >>

Black Notebooks

A man learns from a Moroccan fortune-teller that his sister is about to die. Together, they embark upon a fictional journey in an attempt to alter the prediction, revisiting the past and the present to defy an implacable future. But the prophecy still shadows them – as in life, so in cinema. Black Notebooks – […] >>

Insight

The film was produced in the framework of the “Souvenirs” program – a film lab for Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers in the Old City of Jerusalem. The film follows “Abu Taher”, who manages a number of workers who prepare brooms at the Arab Blind Association. Abu Tahar, also sings the Koran in a small mosque […] >>

Dirty Business

Short documentary “Dirty Business” follows the traditional coal industry scattered around Israel and the West Bank, and sheds light on economic relations between two sides, exploring distorted processes and situations in which people are caught up. >>

A Love Beyond Words

Through the striking cinematography of Nurit Aviv and a soundtrack composed of beautiful chanting and haunting silence, this film explores the mystery and discretion of forty silent nuns living at the Beit Jamal monastery near Jerusalem. The film attempts to deal with the cinematic challenge posed by their very silence and incorporates texts from the […] >>